Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 76033

Prostate Cancer: Screening

Tabled: 9 September 2025
Answered: 15 September 2025
Named Day

Question

Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

LabourSlough

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a national prostate cancer screening programme.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), which advises ministers on all screening matters, commissioned an evidence review modelling the clinical effectiveness and cost of several approaches to prostate cancer screening. This included different poten...

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